now i'm glad my old account with 20,000 posts turned into a legacy account. the golden years of the gt board can stay there! also, i don't want old demons to resurface and relocate to this place. (obvious martin curiosity bait)

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I feel proud that I've used the same online handle since like 2003 (when handle was still a term people used).

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well, my old name was the first one i ever used(2004 here, and earlier in online games). The back story of how this account became the one i am on now is as follows:

4 years ago, i was trying to learn how to create my own icons because i couldn't stick to one for more than a week or so and i didn't like asking users to make new ones because they'd take forever to make one. This was before i knew of the icon testing sites and was just at the switch from the old 80x80 icon format to the 120x120 icon format. I was making icons but i didn't want to put them on my account unless i knew that they'd look decent. So i created this account for the sole purpose of testing icons. At the time there was a glitch in IGN's system to which i was able to create this account on the same email as my main account. As i had a subscription(was called insider, now is called Prime) with my main account, the glitch meant that this account had the same privileges without paying for a 2nd subscription. GREAT!! at the time. IGN has been very good at fucking up, to put it simply.

A couple years later they rolled out a brand new login system. As i was testing icons, i did a log out, and log into this account, on log in, i noticed that the system changed and thought nothing of it. i didn't realize until i tried another log out/log in that they changed the system to recognize the email rather than the username. Since both this account and my main were on the SAME email. The system recognized this one as the account for my email. Fortunately, since IGN was good at being code failures, i was pointed to a back door that got me back to my main. Unfortunately 6 months later, IGN figured out that they still had a backdoor old log in page, and deleted it. At that moment it meant i couldn't access this account. I thought, ok, whatever and life carried on.

Christmas 2010 IGN created a brand spanking new board system. I wanted to test it out but knew that if i logged into the new boards, that log in system would pair my email up with this account and i'd lose my main. At that time, i said C'est le vie and logged into the new boards. That meant my old main was inaccessible.

Half a year later as other users with similar problems were complaining, IGN found a way to switch back to the old account, but whatever account you didn't choose was destroyed(Legacy_Account). It gave me an odd introspective question. Do i stay on this name, or switch back to the old one? After some thought i decided to stick to this account and let my main account with 20,000 posts within it, get destroyed. It's now one of many many accounts now purged and assimilated into the "Legacy Account" name.

Now as for a hilarious moment knowing how the swear word rules have changed. I just remembered that not long after making this account on the old boards, i was browsing the vesti and noticed a particular user name and WUL'd him(a system similar to "following"). It was the only user i ever WUL'd on this account, and so if anyone ever looked up who i wul'd(because i did post a bit on this account), they'd only see...... -Fuck_You-.

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I'm learning a lot about IGN in this thread. I find it interesting that you would make a forum account just to post icons. Are you a graphic designer?

Since this has turned into an internet history thread the last few pages, I might as well post my own as concisely as possible:

I began my internet career in 2004 as Realist, just another anonymous Counterstrike: Source Player. After making some friends on Source I started a renegade clan named Ninja and henceforth became known as [Ninja] Realist. Clan Ninja wasn't very successful but we managed to turn a lot of heads by covertly using other people's servers and generally making a mockery of the clan system. It was around this time that I started getting hooked on anime and posting on the Anime Academy Forums as Ninja Realist.

I've used this handle sporadically since then for many things on the internet including IRC, various forums and this video:

Around 2008 I took about a three and a half year hiatus from all internet posting except Sherdog (I was super into MMA and training this time). I also used the Ninja Realist handle to play absurd amounts of internet poker at this time. But mostly I was incredibly invested in what some people like to call the "real world" passing my classes in College, chasing after dozens of women, having crazy adventures in Africa, starting an under the table stuffed bread business, working at a cat zoo, working as a reporter, living at an organic farm.

Then after a year on a Vyvanse prescription and after a particularly nasty break-up I saw the abyss, dropped out of school and spent a year as an aimless crazy person, drifting from couch to couch.

After this I became a musician (I also started working as a forester to support myself). It was around this time that I started watching anime again and posting on the internet. I'm finally beginning to realize that I honestly don't enjoy IRL socialization that much and would rather spend most of my time on the internet. I've also realized that establishing an internet presence is actually a very meaningful pursuit with lots of potentially important ramifications. To this end, I decided to make accounts on the most popular internet forums.

I'm learning a lot about IGN in this thread. I find it interesting that you would make a forum account just to post icons. Are you a graphic designer?

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the account was just to wear the icons and make a random post to see what it looked like on the forum. Making icons is a hobby for me, something to keep my hands busy when i'm watching tv/anime/etc. I'm a Landscaper.

also another Counter Strike guy. My previous name is MiniGuy77, in cs, it was just MiniGuy(among the thousands also named miniguy.) i was in random servers from 1.0 to 1.6. stopped soon after 1.6 was released. i still use that name for nearly everything else i do on the internet.

I'm learning a lot about IGN in this thread. I find it interesting that you would make a forum account just to post icons. Are you a graphic designer?

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the account was just to wear the icons and make a random post to see what it looked like on the forum. Making icons is a hobby for me, something to keep my hands busy when i'm watching tv/anime/etc. I'm a Landscaper.

also another Counter Strike guy. My previous name is MiniGuy77, in cs, it was just MiniGuy(among the thousands also named miniguy.) i was in random servers from 1.0 to 1.6. stopped soon after 1.6 was released. i still use that name for nearly everything else i do on the internet.

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Interesting. Forestry and landscaping are very similar (I've done a lot of landscaping).

Cripes. I should try to plan to go to one of those anime conventions sometime to at least get a feel for what they're like.

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better hurry up man , entry prices are going up , wili theres like 3 less stalls this year the the amount of guests is quite large - it rained all day Saturday mind you , next year the same friend from the stall that got me the figures is trying to get me free entry so should be pretty swell if that happens

the cons used to be better but its still worth going if youv never been before

for instance both JBhfi and ebgames used to run stalls along with game

game went banrupt ,eb had a fight with game traders and i think everyone got upset about jb eating up the other booths profits

this years con wasint to bad , 2010 was pretty bad , 2011 was alot better , this years one just depends on what your interested in more but yea you should come to come to next years one , that way i can steel your blind man stick